From Bryan Preston at Hot Air, who essentially echoes some of the arguments I’ve been making in the comments to my earlier post: Silky is set to be on Hardball tonight. What do you want to bet last night’s confrontation with Coulter was a set-up, first to play the sympathy card and next to get Silky the free advertising, I mean airtime? Of course it was. Hardball is acting as

David Thompson sums up an interesting excerpt from a Keith Windschuttle lecture critical of literary and social theorists this way: “Unproblematic prose” and “clarity of presentation” are regarded by some – guess who – as the “conceptual tools of conservatism.” Thus, if you prefer arguments that are (a) comprehensible and (b) able to withstand scrutiny, you must be a conservative, i.e. The Enemy. On the other hand, if you denounce

Is it me, or is whining becoming the official battle cry of the Edwards campaign? The latest complaint? How they are being mistreated by Ann Coulter. No Coulter apologist himself, however, Allahpundit at Hot Air argues that Ann is getting a bad rap on this latest controversy, in which she supposedly jokes about jihadis killing John Edwards. For background, Allah links to an important contextual referent. As I noted yesterday,

From Der Spiegel, “Officials Warn of Possible Attacks”: Germany faced an elevated threat of terrorism on Friday because of its involvement in Afghanistan, according to officials who say the risk of an attack here is as high as it has ever been since September 11, 2001. “We are alarmed,” the normally mild-mannered August Hanning, Deputy Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, told reporters on Thursday evening. Hanning said

From Pajamas Media: With virtually no warning, the Islamic Regime declared gas rationing in oil-rich Iran, sparking furious protests across the country. […] PJM’s Ardeshir Arian, who has been following developments closely by phone and on the Internet, reports that unrest sparked by government gas rationing continued all night. The rioting, mainly in Tehran, but also in other cities, spread beyond the gas stations to government banks and government-run supermarkets,

High-profile Truther and noted metallurgist Rosie O’Donnell uses her daughter to Make A Blog Statement. Which, if I’m interpreting that statement correctly, goes something like this: “Jesus, am I ever desperate to be taken seriously as a thinker and not just some loudmouthed she-clown in oversized stretch pants.” Fortunately, as with Cameron Diaz’s recent attempt to play at radical chic, this latest instance of boutique celebrity leftism will most likely

The Age’s Simon Castle examines the latest trend in environmentalist fundamentalism — the rhetorical move to turn skeptics into apostates, and the state into a medieval church: Whatever your views on global warming, the term “climate change denial”, and the speed with which it has become part of everyday language, shouldn’t be welcomed. The term is reductive, as well as offensive in its connotations. It encapsulates the way the environmental

— Though one gets the sense that the “objective” AP isn’t really buying it: Fred Thompson, a likely Republican presidential candidate, on Tuesday defended his work as a Washington lobbyist, telling The Associated Press that lobbying is an important part of life because “government’s got their hands in everything.” The actor and former U.S. senator from Tennessee added, “Nobody yet has pointed out any of my clients that didn’t deserve